East Harlem PreservationA volunteer advocacy organization founded in 2005 to promote, preserve, and protect the neighborhood's cultural, architectural and environmental history.

Friends of the Upper East Side Historic DistrictsIn addition to safeguarding the UES's six historic districts and 125 individual landmarks, FUESHD seeks to maintain and improve zoning laws governing the area's avenues and residential side streets. Website includes maps and brief descriptions of several different historical districts, and links to other preservation and landmark resources.

Greater Astoria Historical SocietyA community organization, chartered in 1985, dedicated to preserving the past and promoting Long Island City's future. We host field trips, walking tours,slide presentations, and guest lectures to schools and the public, focusing on the neighborhoods of old Long Island City: The Village of Astoria, Ravenswood, Steinway, Hunters Point, Sunnyside, and Dutch Kills.

Hispanic Genealogy Society of New YorkThe society is still working towards establishing a library and research center in Manhattan, where their extensive collection of reference publications and research materials will be housed.

Historic Districts CouncilThe only city-wide grassroots organization singularly dedicated to these communities and the Landmarks Law that protects them.

Historic House Trust of NYCWorks with the Parks Department and the nonprofit boards of each of the twenty-three historic houses in the city's park system, to restore, interpret, and promote the sites, which span 350 years of city life.

Historic Morningside Heights A non-profit formed in 1996 to preserve the Heights' architectural heritage. Covers 110th St. north to Tiemann Place, including Riverside and Morningside Parks.

Landmark West!A non-profit working to preserve the best of the Upper West Side's architectural heritage from 59th to 110th Streets between Central Park West and Riverside Drive. Since 1985 it has worked to achieve landmark status for individual buildings and historic districts.

Lower East Side ConservancyA group dedicated to the preservation, stewardship, and promotion of the LES as the cradle of Jewish cultural life in America. Its focus is "to preserve, enhance and support the Lower East Side's body of historic buildings, including its architecturally, culturally and religously-significant living synagogues; also to raise public awareness of the Lower East Side's distinct cultural identity as both an historic and present-day Jewish community."

New York Irish History RoundtablePromotes interest in and research on the 300-year history of the Irish in NYC. It sponsors lectures, fieldtrips, walking tours, special projects, graduate and undergraduate scholarships, museum exhibitions, genealogy workshops, newsletters, and an annual journal, "New York Irish History." Its members include both professional and amateur historians and genealogists. Membership is open to all.

Queens Historical SocietyAs the historical society for the largest borough in NYC. QHS publishes a quarterly newsletter and offers a regular series of lectures, programs and slide presentations. In addition, the Society cooperates closely with local preservation groups and historical societies.

Place in HistoryA nonprofit founded in 1997 that examines urban development, decay, and redevelopment through community-based public art and public history projects.

Union Square Community CoalitionFormed in 1980 to advocate for the rehabilitation of the historic park and to work with NYC in its re-design. That accomplsihed, the organization continues its historic preservation and landmarking activities in the area.

Weeksville Heritage Center An historical group dedicated to preserving the four remaining structures of what was once the free black community of Weeksville in Brooklyn in the early nineteenth century. Their website has a brief outline of the settlement's history.

​The Gotham Center for New York City HistoryThe Graduate Center, City University of New York365 Fifth Avenue, Room 6103New York, NY 10016(212) 817 8460 GothamCenter@gc.cuny.edu

We are proud and grateful to acknowledge the support ofThe Graduate Center, City University of New York, and the John Jay College of Criminal Justice